April 27th 6:00pm

Note to self, refrain from driving from Berlin to Warsaw in the future, it takes a long time. Really. Some 500km or 560km has taken us about 8.5 or 9 hours, ow yeah!


Polish countryside on a rainy day from the inside of a Ford.

Seems that every Polish highway (single lane or 1.5 lanes (more on that below)) must go through the centre of every town possible. Not just that but they will sometimes have stoplights which will back the traffic up, ow say 20 to 30 minutes. At first you are confused but after the third or fourth you sort of get used to it.


Me, experiencing another holdup on the highway

There are also squeegee kids that take advantage of this, and the fact that you have a German license plate or Euros, to force wash your car. Although one group of men were very nice about it and did it for free after we told them that we didn't have any money.

Do yourself a favour next time you are driving through Poland take the toll highway. Even thought it is in the middle of the country and not touching the German border in any way it will speed up your trip. The highway is being extended so perhaps when you are there the drive will be better.


Horse and buggies are still used to transport sugar beets

But now we are getting into Warsaw so I'm thinking that we may get two full lanes soon.


Diving on in to Warsaw